Twa Corbies

Summary: A man is walking along and hears two crows talking abouit their dinner plans, which are essentially to fly over to a fallen dyke where a dead knight's body lies, and pick his bones clean of anything edible - leaving no trace of his existence.

Moral: Human life is fragile, er - our time on the planet is very short and insignificant.

As I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies makin' a mane.
The tane intae the tither did say, O,
"Whaur sall we gang and dine the day, O,
whaur sall we gang and dine the day?"

"It's in ahint you auld fail dyke,
I wot there lies a new slain knight,
an naebody kens that he lies there, O,
but his hawk and his hound and his lady fair, O,
but his hawk and his hound and his lady fair".

"His hound is to the haunting gane,
his hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,
his lady's ta'en anither mate, O,
so we may mak our dinner swate".

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,
and I'll pike oot his bonny blue e'en,
we'll theek oor nest when it grows bare, O,
we'll theek oor nest when it grows bare".

There's mony a ane for him maks mane,
but nane sall ken whaur he is gane,
o'er his white banes when they are bare, O,
the wind sall blaw for evenmair, O,
the wind sall blaw for evenmair.

Additional Information:

This song featured in Dave's Angle on episode 34 of the Garden Sessions FREE fortnightly internet radio show (or Podcast).